Dry skin can be a huge pain for many reasons. For one, it could be incredibly uncomfortable, the feeling of rough skin ruining your day. It can also make you feel insecure about your looks, not liking the visual of crusted white all over your body. Or simply, it can be frustrating when one specific area has dry skin, whether it’s your face, your back, etc., but the rest of your body is fine, causing you to wonder how to fix the issue in such a designated place.
The thing to always remember is that everybody's skin is different, and even the skin on your body can be different depending on the place. What methods work for your face may not work for your back, and what works on your back may not work for your legs.
Knowing that, it’s important to know that certain habits may affect parts of your body differently. Something you do to your face every day may be fine, but once done to the shoulders may cause acne, dry skin, etc.
That’s why it’s important to know the various ways one might develop dry skin, so that way you may find the correct culprit for the correct body area.
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Heat
Heat can be a big cause of dry skin. Dry skin happens when your skin doesn’t have enough moisture whether that’s from water or creams. Due to many people believing that they need more water on their skin, it’s often that people will leave water on their face too long or stay in the shower too long. When people shower, it’s often that they take hot showers or use hot water to wash their face.
Withstanding hot water for a long period of time may be the reason why your skin is drying out. That heat from the water may be drying your skin, and since you shower (hopefully) once a day, that may slowly be causing your skin to reach a neutral point of dryness since it never has time to soak up any good moisturizers.
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Rough Scrubbing
Your skin needs to be clean and needs to get moisture in order to truly thrive. Many people who know this, tend to translate this into washing their face often and scrubbing, harshly.
Scrubbing harshly can be very bad for you because not only does it rough up the skin, but it can cause very small tears on your skin surface and dry out your skin.
You should not be harshly scrapping your face with a sponge or with your hands. It should always be soft washing so you can carefully clean your skin, but not cause damage to your skin by being too harsh.
Wrong Cleansers
I have personally struggled with using the wrong cleansers that dried out my skin. Everyone’s face is different, so just because one exfoliation, scrub, or cleanser worked on someone else doesn’t mean it will work great on you.
Some cleansers have ingredients that just might irritate your skin while others might be too strong for your skin leaving it dry and damaged.
If you find that your moisturizers are not helping with your dry skin, it may be wise to look at the products you’re using to see if the chemicals in the ingredients are causing your skin to dry out faster. From there, you can decide if you want to try to counteract the cleanser or if you want to change your cleanser overall.
Vitamin B Deficiency
Vitamin B is one of the necessary vitamins for your body. They affect the health of many areas of our body, including our skin. Because vitamin B is helpful in various areas of the body, having a vitamin deficiency can be very bad, especially because it might not be as noticeable at first.
Aside from dry skin, a vitamin B deficiency can also cause rashes, acne, and wrinkles. Since vitamin B helps restore your skin, it can also make you more sensitive to things like cleansers, or even direct sunlight.
It’s important to get your vitamin B whether in supplements or in foods, like fish, eggs, or poultry.
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Eczema
If you feel you’ve tried every method for fixing dry skin, and it’s still not working, you might want to consider that you may have eczema. Eczema can present itself very harshly on your skin, or be very subtle, which is why many people might not know they have eczema.
For some people, it looks like itchy skin, while others will just have incredibly dry skin that is usually manageable, but sometimes gets too difficult to maintain. It’s wise to talk to a dermatologist about your skin or do research on the warning signs of eczema.
If you do have eczema, there are many specific lotions, medications, and cleansers that would better help your face because they are made with eczema in mind. And having a specific product that caters to your skin condition may be the answer to helping your dry skin.
